{"product_id":"and-short-the-season-poems","title":"And Short the Season: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAnd Short the Season: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMaxine Kumin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393241006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e112\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eA poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Kumin is unforgettable, indispensable (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e). In \u003cem\u003eAnd Short the Season\u003c\/em\u003e she muses on mortality: her own and that of the earth. Always deeply personal, always political, these poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind. \u003cp\u003eFrom Whereof the Gift Is Small\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eAnd short the season, first rubythroat\u003cbr\u003e in the fading lilacs, alyssum in bloom, \u003cbr\u003e a honeybee bumbling in the bleeding heart\u003cbr\u003e on my gelding's grave while beetles swarm\u003cbr\u003e him underground. Wet feet, wet cuffs, \u003cbr\u003e little flecks of buttercup on my sneaker toes, \u003cbr\u003e bluets, violets crowding out the tufts\u003cbr\u003e of rich new grass the horses nose\u003cbr\u003e and nibble like sleepwalkers held fast--\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ebrittle beauty\u003cem\u003e--might this be the last?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"And Short the Season: Poems | Maxine Kumin | Hardcover | 9780393241006 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1705550","offer_id":50834101960962,"sku":"1705550","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61Q1hKNIysL.jpg?v=1792631602","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/and-short-the-season-poems","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}